The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-17
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
An Eastern Road on the Inter
State Commerce Act.
AFRAID OF BEING CINCHED.
After a Bilk-sons OF st. George
More Dynamite Dsviltry-rhe
American Turf.
In Railway Circles.

CHICAGO, August ia local paper
says: Notice has just been given that
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
declines to accept the regular PROPOSE
ton of through rate on the Pacific
Coast business west-bound, if such a
rae is below the regular tariff. This
means that it will participate in west
bound rates that are less for longer
than for a shorter haul. On east-bound
California business, it will take its pro-
portion of whatever rate the, Pacific
Coast may make. Its explanation for
this action is that it is advised by its
counsel that 1t would be liable under the
Interstate commerce law to be prose-
cuted for making lower rates for long
haul than for short one. The respon-
sibility for violation of the law, the
company's officials say, rests with the
initial company. The Baltimore &
Ohio, Lake Shore, Grand Trunk and
other eastern lines do not agree with
the Pennsylvania in this matter, and
have given notice that they will con
tinue to accept their agreed proportions.
CINCINNATI, August 16.-At the ad-
journed meeting of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton stockholders, to-
day, nothing was done, it being resolved
to adjourn to August Both, when the
various committees will be ready to
report.
WASHINGTON, August 16.-The Secre-
tary OF the Interior is preparing a de-
cls1on relating to the indemnity with
drawals of'the Nothern Pacific Railroad
Company. He reviews at some length
the company's construction of law. He
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hold that Congress recognized the DO
litical divisions of the States and
Territories when it gave tne company
ten alternated sections on each side of
the line of the road when it passes
through State, and a twenty mile sec
ton when it passes through a Terri
tory. The lien land is but sub
stitute of granted land, and the same
boundary lines applies to one as
to another. The same distance is pre-
served in providing for an indemnity
belt, less being allowed in the States
than in the Territories. The Secretary
will say that in his opinion,
and according to the views herein
expressed, the indemnity claims of the
company must be greatly reduced, and
it will not require all the vacant of
the numbered sections within the in
demnity limits, but that there would be
lands to restore to the public domain.
The Secretary will also hold that this
company is entitled to but one in
demnity belt of ten miles in width, and
that the grant of July 3Oth, 1870, re-
peated and modified that of the first SO
far as they conficted, and that both
acts relate to the same indemnity belt.
These are the only points not covered
in the decision yesterday in the At
lantic and Pacific railway case.
DENVER, August 16.-El Paso, Tex :,
special: The third division of engin-
GERS on the Mexican Central went out
to-day. The three divisions now out
$50 miles of track. No
violence has been offered north, and the
only division not out is composed of
men who are members of the brother
hood, and some who are not. Passen-
ger trains are running on the lower two
divisions.